John Hendrix is clearly a St. Louis author and illustrator to watch.
“John Brown: His Fight for Freedom” is not only a gorgeously drawn picture book, it tackles a controversial historical figure unusual to children’s books. Although Hendrix has done artwork…
Cover of paperback edition of "My Life in France"
Tom Cooper, director of the Webster Groves Public Library, reviewed “My Life in France” by Julia Child when it was published. In honor of “Julie & Julia” mania, here’s the April 2006…
Jennifer Weiner struck best-seller gold with her very first book, “Good in Bed.” It hit in 2001, during the chick lit craze, and made headlines because its heroine was, gasp!, a plump yet self-confident woman.
Weiner’s had eight best sellers since,…
Author Dan Brown seems to be book lovers’ Sarah Palin: They either love him or hate ‘em. And his stories seem just as open to diverse interpretation.
News of his next novel, coming a mere six years after the blockbuster “The Da…
“YA is where it’s at,” says Heather Brewer, author of “The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod.”
The 35-year-old resident of Maryland Heights just released the third book in the vampire series for young adults. She’ll be doing three events in the next…
There were enough wizard rock bands in 2007 for MTV to create a Top 10 list. Two of those wrock bands, the Remus Lupins and the Whomping Willows, will be in St. Louis Friday (July 3) celebrating the movie release…
Claire Applewhite, author of “The Wrong Side of Memphis,” recently posed some questions to Janet Grace Riehl. Riehl is the author of “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary,” a self-published book of story poems, many of which center on her family.
Riehl graduated from Alton…
Best-selling author John Grisham will be in St. Louis April 22 to speak at a fundraiser for the Midwestern Innocence Project.
Tickets start at $125 for individuals.
Grisham’s latest legal thriller is “The Associate.” But in 2006, he published his first nonfiction…
Just minutes after Yale professor Elizabeth Alexander read the poem she’d written for Barack Obama’s inauguration, a transcript appeared on CQ Politics.
It doesn’t seem perfectly transcribed and many of the lines may not break correctly, but here is what was…
We don’t review every local author’s book. We can’t - we don’t have the space, time or freelance budget. Plus, there are more books published now than ever before.
I’ve been book editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for 13 years.…
